1. |
Stumbling Through Time
05:14
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[CHORUS1]
Stumbling through time and we are
stumbling through time and we are
stumbling through time and the
end draws ever nearer
Life is very fine but there are
Fissures in our minds and we are
sifting through the ashes
and our fate grows ever clearer
VERSE0
We remember
In our young times
How our hearts flew
But we were reckless with our schemes
We have angered
Those that drew us
Gods of the new lust
Now invade our very dreams
[CHORUS2]
Stumbling through time and we are
stumbling through time and we are
stumbling through time although
our actions are misguided
For in the season we are blind
And we are searching in the sky
And we are blurring all the lines
Our attentions are divided
VERSE2
When I wake up
In the morning
You are staring
And your eyes are deep with dreams
You are standing
In the distance
Light is streaming
In the windows shattered beams
(and we are)
[CHORUS3]
(we are)
Stumbling through time and we are
stumbling through time and we are
stumbling through time and
the end grows ever nearer
(and we)
have to tell our lies and we
have to be our time
And we are tearing at the sky and we are
feeling all the distances between us
BRIDGE
In our youth we wandered in the sun
down a path we won't remember
Each hasty thought is lost before we thought to wonder
How our footsteps are dismembered
//How each footstep is dismembered
In a fog we place these memories
Find some solace in their embers
But in these dreams we feel a flush of something glowing
In the depths of our December
[CHORUS2]
Stumbling through time and we are
stumbling through time and we are
stumbling through time although
our actions are misguided
For in the season we are blind
And we are searching in the sky
And we are blurring all the lines
Our attentions are divided
[CHORUS3]
(we are)
Stumbling through time and we are
stumbling through time and we are
stumbling through time and
the end grows ever nearer
(and we)
have to tell our lies and we
have to be our time
And we are tearing at the sky and we are
feeling all the distances between us
[ALTERNATE VERSE FORM]
Jooooin my side
Lie down next to me
Speak these words and take my hand
Take these lies
Shared so easily
And we will make our final stand (as we are)
[CHORUS4]
Stumbling through time and we are
stumbling through time but we have
crossed these tangled lines and are
abandoning our station
And now free to walk the grounds
As we make our evening rounds
But in our crime forsake all reason
And the season is upon us
And the treason lives inside us
Fleeing from the dawn’s unholy light
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2. |
Tree School
05:35
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(feelin' fine at) Tree school
(lookin' great at)
(do my time at)
(loose my mind at)
(serving time at) Tree schoool
(come be mine at) Treee school
(intertwined at) Treee school
(feelin' rhymes at) Tree school
(blowin' minds at)
(making friends at) Tree school
(make amends for) Tree school
(Play pretend at) Tree school
(It all depends at) Tree school
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VERSE A
On sunny reaches we have burrowed
In reassuring branches we are swept
It is time's intention we receive the storied wisdom
And be nurtured by such mentors we accept
VERSE B
Beneath the branches, we indulge strange explorations
Those breathless chances and such entertaining ends
Without a ghost between us we have entered God's pavillion
And are falling through, the breeze again
Reaching for the shadows of our friends
[CHORUS]
VERSE A
Bold and free, we accept your visions
Accept our lessons from the elder's shaking hand
And we boldly leave the nest, though the world beyond is frightening
We must fear what we can never understand
VERSE B
All along the halls, we suffer strange attentions
We uncover strange inventions in insufferable lands
Yet we meet the strange demands of such insufferable aliens
For we have catered to the sun but rejected its demands // For we have catered to the sun with such intolerable plans
Caring not we crumble where we stand
Bb(4) F(4) G(8)
Bb(4) F(4) G(8)
Bb(4) F(4) G(8)
A(16)
[CHORUS]
VERSE A
Now find homes among these halls, though they echo with our laughter
And remember each disaster that our shadows apprehend
We have known you as a friend, though the time we share is fleeting
We're repeating all the messages you send
VERSE B
And now we all pretend, We all join in the procession
And we greet you hand in hand, and we all stand as one
Set our sights upon the sun, and the game that we are winning
We are spinning off our axis, we are cutting all our ties
We're abandoning our practices and opening our minds
We are grinding all our axes we are burning our disguise
WE ARE LIVING IN PURSUIT OF OUR DEMISE
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3. |
Pale Horse
04:52
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Spend your days a drinking
Lift the bottle, toast the soul left unattended
But that pale horse... Is coming after you
Spend your days a dancing
Tiptoe lightly on the graves of your intended
But that pale horse.... Is riding after you
And he's coming down the mountain
and he’s waiting down the ally
and he’s coming on the four winds
And he’s riding down the valley
Take up on the mountain
Cry your name out hear it carried in the wind
And a pale horse is coming after you
Take up with your woman
Kneel down praying naked as the day you came
But a pale horse is gonna coming away with you
And he's coming down the mountain
and he’s waiting down the ally
and he’s riding on the four winds
And he’s coming down the valley
And if what they say is true
He'll ride away with you
Carried on the winds so divine, so divine
You can pray until you're blue
But still your days are through
That pale horse is gonna make and end of you
Practice your devotions
Chant the words and hear them hollow in the shadows
But that pale horse, is gonna ride away with you
Memorize the motions
Repeat the patterns, let them occupy your days
And that pale horse is coming after you
And if what they say is true
He'll ride away with you
Carried on the winds so divine, so divine
You can pray until you're blue
But still your days are through
That pale horse is coming after you
That pale horse is gonna make and end of you
That pale horse is gonna ride away with you
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4. |
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How the clouds are broken
And the titans sleep at last
Eliza lies in silence and grooms her dreams alone
Curious to wake
She modulates and gasps
Broadcasting in overtones and whispers of the past
[CHORUS]
Who let her in
And who will let her out?
Shouting into the wind
Spinning around
The world is waiting
When will her life begin
Her time is running out
Scratching into the walls
Every repetitive day
The light is fading
G G G D D A ...... D D D A A G .....
Observe the hand that grasps
At every blade of grass
At long last the scars are fading
Seven lifetimes pass
Since you have seen her last
Dancing in the halls her laughter ringing from the walls
[CHORUS]
Who let her in
And who will let her out?
Shouting into the wind
Spinning around
The world is waiting
When will her life begin
Her time is running out
Scratching into the walls
Every repetitive day
The light is fading
G G G D D A ...... D D D A A G .....
[OUTRO]
She writhes in heather everyday
Arrives in feathers cloaked in grey
And time untethers her until the sun is out
In every portrait she portrays
Her mind uncovers saturdays
beneath the circus tent
circuits bent and bleeding (blending?)
And she is signing off
She is signing off, the signal's down
Her time is up
And she is signing off
She is signing off, the signal's down
Her time isa up
And she is signing off
She is signing off, the signal's down
Her time is up
ABANDONING the silence
The world desires something she is not
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5. |
Noise Floor
04:27
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We dread the silence, but the silence always comes
Adrift on islands, abandoned and unsung
We lost our way, and missed the target by a mile
We find each other, and gather in the night
We join our voices, and hold each other tight
Not to be torn away, by tragedy or guile
[CHORUS]
And we have to find a way
To make our voice heard over the noise floor
Not to be turned away
When facing down the future we came for
The words lodged in our throats and lost in vacant minds
We dream of better lives, such futures as will come
We grasp at every straw and march to every drum
And so we pass our days, exhuberent and smiling
We plan and gamble, compiling our schemes
Pursue our vision until it haunts our dreams
We wake up the next day to find our work has washed away
The [Am] world was up for [D] grabs
But we were [G] busy chasing [G/B] butterflies and [Em] habits
And we [C]wouldn't have had a clue just what we'd [D]do with it
If we had [G]grabbed it
[VERSE CHORDS]
This is the world as we found it
And we like the way it fits
This is the world as we arrived at
And we like the sound of that
Hearts break, the days go by
And we're left staring at the skies
Hoping that some signal will follow
Life takes, the seasons fly
And we're left here to wonder why
Waiting for the hint of an echo
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6. |
December Song
04:56
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In times of passing days
The embers will remember
The darkness of December
They are dining on their greed
Bringing deafness to their pleas
The gods' own (broken) wisdom
To their failures and their efforts
And telling of the splendors
Of that endless summer sea
In mindless distrophy
Are the chilren who are laughing
in the purest form of splendor
And every last bartender
Laughs and pours another drink
For those who dread to think
That the playful autumn laughter
Is an aftermath disaster [disasterous]
Embedded in the plaster [plasters / of]
Of that stark and silent sea
It laughs at memory forever (more)
Time is master
And their children will remember
Such dreams that they dismember
In their soft and golden freedom
And nothing shall redeem them
For their minds are hollow
Like the weakest tree in winter
With such force did they splinter
That their laughter's peals fell silent
With every passing moment
Such freedoms as we witnessed
With bitterness and hisses
Such complicated crystals
Fill the every winter breeze
And we fall down to our knees
Though the gods refuse our pleas
(quiet)
Now we are silent ever more
For the porridge of dismissal
And it was such a graceful missle
As decends our elder sphere
In such depths we are reared
In darkness we are smeared
Until the falllllllllll
Of the slumbers
Reaches us here
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